Isaac held the final notice in his hand,
the words rolling in his head.The word
foreclosure seemed to take up most of the page, drowning all other words out.The sting of tears came to his eyes,
uncontrollably.They clogged up his
throat and squeezed his chest like it was being slowly crushed by one of his steer’s
hooves.He had tried everything to make
the little ranch he bought five years ago profitable.Every penny of the money he inherited from
his grandfather, the only person who didn’t disown him after he came out, went
into the ranch.Now there was nothing
left.

The rest of the family was beyond pissed
that Grandpa left Isaac everything he had, so he wouldn’t ask those money
hungry vultures for anything, not that they would give him anything
anyway.They had successfully disowned
him so thoroughly they hadn’t even spoken to him at his grandfather’s funeral.And he hadn’t heard from any of th…